at it again. >> the plant is shutting down, and their jobs, a total of 170 are moving to china even though the company recorded record numbers last quarter. >> it will be my last day. >> they're begging mitt romney to stop this. what does he say? we'll tell you. plus we have our friday elbow of the day. now it's go time. >> you know, we have a debate coming up next monday, the final presidential debate. what happens before that we have the president out on the campaign trail. we have romney out on the campaign trail. but president obama came up with something which is fantastic. he created a new disease and he calls that disease rom-nesia.

he love it. he talks about how mitt romney, everything he says, every single thing he says he changes his mind as if he had forgotten what he said before. the president has coined romnesia. he should keep using it. sometimes the republicans have had such great success with turns of phrase such as swift voting, the quick one off to think a certain way about a certain person. romnesia is the perfect way to describe exactly what afflicts mitt romney when it comes to his own record. day we have an interesting round of good news for the president which is he has gotten endorsements today from the denver post, the tampa bay times. the salt city tribune. yes, the salt city tribune, an utah paper endorsing obama. that's good for him. he seems to have stopped the bleeding according to a lot of

polls, however he has got to go into the next debate, the next set of questions and smile. we need a president who sat there and smile, we need the president reassure us. when we see him smile everybody is happy. he has a number of things he needs to talk about. the supreme court, climate change, iraq and the fiscal cliff. he has not talked at all about the fiscal cliff. it is coming. whoever is elected will be totally responsible for that. he went on "the daily though." this is what he said with jon stewart. >> obama: the stakes could not be bigger, war peace, supreme court, women's right to choose, whether we're creating jobs in this country or whether they're getting shipped overseas, whether our kids are getting the best education they can. all of that stuff is at stake. there is no excuse not to vote. >> of course there is no excuse not to vote. but you see the president being serious, presidential, and then stewart turns the conversation

to libya and here is president obama with jon stewart. >> obama: here's what i have to say, before americans gets killed, it's not optimal. we're going to fix it. >> all of it. >> all of it. what happens during the course of the presidency, the government is a big operation at any given time something screws up and you make sure you find out what is broken and you fix it. >> you hear president obama say it's not optimal that's not a very sensitive word for him to use. it's not down playing something. all the president has done is talked about what a tragedy this has been. he talked about it when he was at the debates. he talked about it at the campaign trail. he knows he's the president and anan ambassador was killed. when he says optimal the republicans are going crazy saying it's clinical, it was not optimal. here is john mccain.

>> even the president who has never known what these kinds of tragedies are about and the sacrifice that these people make i can't even get angry it is just so inappropriate and i'm sure that families of those brave americans are not amused. >> john mccain is a bitter loser. he lost the presidential election. he lost it to barack obama. for him to say that the president doesn't know what these kinds of tragedies are about, he's the president of the united states, four people died while he was president. of course he knows what it's about. to take it out of context is the crime that mccain has done, and so many of these conservative talkers have done. let's listen exactly to what stewart said. this is the question he asked and listen to the word that he used to cue the president. >> prior to the investigation helping the communication between these divisions not just

what happened in bengahzi, but what happened within. i don't know, i would say even you would admit that it was not the optimal response to at least the american people as far as us all being on the same page. >> they were afghani a conversation. the interviewer said optimal. the president said optimal back. that was the it mr. mccain. here is kelly iot. >> the president's statement today was astounding. the murder of four americans is tragic and totally unacceptable. and i would say this is part of a bigger pattern. do you remember the leaking that they did when things went well, particularly how quickly they got the information out of seal team six. >> of course they got the information out of seal team six quickly. it was their information. it was their plan. it was their their placing.

what happened in libya the last time an ambassador was killed was in pakistan, we still don't know all that happened, and that was years ago. it was not all serious business because he was on "the daily show," and this was the fun time that the president had with jon stewart. >> they are not sexy issues. they are not the kinds of things-- >> you don't know what i find sexy. >> obama: let me put it this way, i saw you flash-- >> i know, i know. >> obama: we're not going to go there. >> i appreciate that. >> obama: i'm still the president. >> i understand that. i respect the position. >> i love when he says, i'm still the president. well, if he wants to stay the president, he's going to really have to win the state of ohio, and if you are living in ohio all you're seeing are political

ads left, right all day long, all night long. our own ben mankiewicz went to ohio to see what it's like, as they say, on the ground of ohio. >> i'm here in parma ohio, where bill clinton and bruce springsteen held their rally for barack obama. parma is an interesting town. i went to the local library to research the city. it's the seventh biggest city in ohio. it was named parma because it was the first place of parmesan true. >> there is no way that is true. >> or is it that true. >> vote now. >> i'm barack obama. >> i'm mitt romney. >> i approve this message. >> the good people of parma like other ohioans like the other people of ohio, can barely get through the episode of real

housewives of akron without being bombarded with political ads. like in los angeles our commercials are about kim kardashian and her boob jobs. what is it like for presidential elections. >> i get sick of the phone calls. 20 a day. >> 20 phone calls a day. >> about that. >> i don't get 20 regular phone calls in a month. i should move to ohio. >> personally, i don't care who you're going to vote for as long as it's not romney. >> aren't we biased. >> why would you say that? >> because you're from l.a. >> forcible rape. >> how can you support that. >> i wish i lived in new york because it's not a swing state. >> are you a family? >> um, she's a close friend to me and my wife. and she had an opportunity to come to the rally in parma. >> she's a close friend. she's a close friend of your wife. did i catch you guys in the middle of something embarrassing? maybe i should not put that on tv. is there trouble?

cut, cut cut. >> no, i'm with greg. >> i like you pretended you didn't know his name. >> keep ohio jobs in ohio. >> vote early. >> totally is a pain in the ass. everybody's mind was set up. everybody that tells you that i'm undecided is baloney. >> they throw mud at each other. i decided my voting a long time ago. >> scale of one to ten how much do you want me to leave your store now? >> goodbye. >> so, like, eight. >> ben, she must be doing fine because she was sold out of all of her baked goods. >> no, they're not moving a lot of product at baker's bakery. >> there was no product behind her. is it true when you were there you could feel it? did you feel that the ads were on all the time. >> when go to ohio what you do sense more than anything else is that this election is happening in a way that you're clueless

about in california. there is a presidential election in ohio. everybody talks about it. we went to the polish diner in parma where i had potato pancakes and perogies, and the two tables, that's all they talked about. whether they had seen the candidate, paul ryan, and bruce springsteen, it is literally the topic of conversation. >> you and i joke, man it would be great if we lived in a swing state and people in swing states are saying they're sick of it. >> let me show you some numbers. this is from the new york daily news. 46 political lands ad between 8:00 and 11:00. 60% of 64 primetime ads in cincinnati political ads. $35 million like in the last four or five months on 37,000 ads in cleveland. 19 million on 20 ads 20,000 ads in

columbus. it is all they're seeing. >> they came out this week with the five top media markets and ohio was not even in the first four. can you imagine what it must be like in a place like greenbay, wisconsin, number one. image what it must beikn a aca likee le that ifif t tt't' how you felel i i ohio. did you get a sense that it's making people not want to vote or people are being turned off from the entire process? >> that's an interesting notion, and i read this before, and this is from sell let's katz piece in "the new york daily news." you're trying to persuade these voters. and they've made up their minds. they're going to vote for mitt romney and they're going to vote for barack obama and might their minds be switched. scott jennings from ohio said, i don't know but i intend to find out. >> they're on it. >> i don't think it will make anybody not vote but it was easy to find people exasperated with

the ads and the calls. >> and ben liked going to see bruce springsteen. next coming up on "the young turks." we have mitt romney's company closing a plant down and the workers are furious. >> they also informed us that they would be bringing some of the people from china for us to train. it was like a slap in the face. just think how you would feel you taking my job but then i have to train you. >> you know, and later we will tell you how pot just might become legal in colorado, and it doesn't just affect colorado. it could affect the presidential race. >> legalization will effect outsiders to grow here and sell to the rest of the country. >> i lived in colorado most of my life, and this is not what i think colorado is about to become the marijuana capital of the united states.

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tough for so many people, and nobody is feeling it more than freeport illinois. it's owned by bain. bain you'll remember, is the former employer of governor mitt romney. mitt romney actually one of the founders of bain, as you well know at this point. here is a report on the conditions at the factory. >> the plant is shutting down, and their jobs, a total of 170 are moving to china. even though the company reported record profits last quarter. >> numbernovember 5th is scheduled to be my last day after 33 days. >> it is owned by bain company, a company started by mitt romney although romney left pain seven years before they bought the freeport plant most of the people in this city, they're calling it bain-port they're is blaming mitt romney. >> this is ground zero to keep

jobs here in the united states. >> you know, most of the employees are going to be out of work on november 5th. that's when they're out of work of the before thanksgiving. the plant is set to close on december 31st. happy new year. cenk uygur and "the young turks," we've been at this story all year. this is the story this past july before this story became immanent. >> what is happening here? what is happening when they took over the new ownership what did they tell us. >> they told us our jobs would be outsourced to china malaysia and mexico into what do you want mitt romney to do? >> we basically want mitt romney to come here and explain to us why he's campaigning to create

jobs when his company is outsourcing all over the world. >> it is not a new company that came out of nowhere. it's almost 100 years old. it was founded in 1916, and then texas instruments bought it in 1959. then bain capital september in in 2006, and then there is an ipo in 2010 and on schedule to close in 2012. you figure, you know, if a plant is closing things must be terrible. they have to have a reason to close because business must be horrible. look at the profits they made. in 2010 their profits were $592,000. 2011 $660,000. it's just heartbreaking. here are more stories. >> they came in and introduced their transition team. the next bullet on their meeting was by the way by the end of the the 2012 all the jobs will be moved to china.

>> we all just--aah. you could hear it in the room. it was just silent the whole time. they were talking away about their company who they were, what they do. >> and then they also informed us that they would be bringing some of the people from china for us to train. it was a slap in the face. think how you would feel, you taking my job, but then i have to train you to take my job. >> you know, these workers when you hear that, it's just so heartbreaking. in this economy and to know that the man running for president was once the head of this company that bought them out. they have a protest camp across the street from the plant right there, they're protesting what is going on in the plant. does mitt romney--no, he doesn't own bain capital. bain capital owns 51% of the company, but he still has a $8 million stake in bain capital

so there is a a tacit association between mitt romney and bain capital there always will be. we have dave johnson joining us from san francisco at our studio there, and you've been following this story for the "huffington post," dave, thank you for being on the show. these are real people. you hear about the jobs, and you hear about the numbers. when you hear about a small story about a big story it always hits home. >> michael, this is a compelling story, and it really is the center of this election. the company makes auto sensors for the automobile industry, and this is a key component for the automobile chain. they're hawking this key component up right now and sending it to china. they made the workers at this plant train their chinese replacements and they took down the american flag while those workers were here.

bain capital controls this company. i encourage anybody watching this to go to bainport.com. that's where the workers have a website to support all this. they're trying to block the trucks that come out the bain trucks shipping this equipment to china. there was a sit-in where six people were arrested. there was a sit-in asking for severance for these people. these people are asking military mitt, will you please come here and show us that you mean what you say about cracking jobs going to china. >> dave, it's interesting. this is the man who said let detroit go bankrupt. now he's saying let the company that supplies detroit go bankrupt too and sending everything overseas. does he have any control over this?

and why if the company is profitable would they be closing down any way? >> well, bain will make a bunch more money. the incentives that china gives for companies to move over there, plus the tax incentives that they get here. they can hoist a lot of costs onto the public like training these workers for new jobs and things like that to the government picks that up, and other things like that. the deal here is that china gets this component shipped to china. people at bain get fabulously wealthy doing that. the workers lose their jobs. the community is devastated. the economy of the region is more devastated when more and more of these companies move, and this is a corrupt bargain being made. if those people can use the money to influence our government, the workers and the

rest of us lose. we lose ultimately our ability to make a living in the future from this sort of thing. >> and dave johnson not to be lost the symbolism that you alluded to. when the chinese workers came over here, the company took the american flag down until they left and then put it back up as if they're ashamed of that american flag. dave johnson with the "huffington post," thank you for being with us on tonight. this is a real american story and a sad one too. >> thank you. >> when we come back, the bud bump. colorado is about to legalize pot. and next who might benefit from this. >> let's vote for the good guys and against the bad guys. let's have marijuana tax money go to our schools rather than criminals in mexico. vote for colorado. >> plus, the elbow of the day. can you tell us who or can you guess who it's going to be? text us at or tweet us at

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[ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> as every election year brings us there are a ton of ballot initiatives and ballots on the books going out before the voters in states all across the country, none probably as interesting as amendment 64 in colorado, which is will the legalization and possession of the use of marijuana. here is more about that. >> she and her husband once run a marijuana dispensary and marketed foods with marijuana in them. now a state constitutional amendment to make it legal in colorado for adults over 21 to possess one ounce of marijuana and grow up to six plants for personal use. colorado is already one of 17 states that allow marijuana for

medical use. the business pumps $11 million a year into colorado state coffers. proponents say taxes would generate millions more for school construction. >> let's have our marijuana money go to schools rather than criminals in mexico. >> this poll from september 15th those you that the majority of coloradoans want this. 51% support and oppose, 40%. then we see a poll of the candidate in colorado. the president at 50%. mitt romney in that poll is at 47%. so marijuana more popular than either candidate, if you can believe it. when you go--well, i can believe it actually. it makes all the sense in the world. when you go on to see that poll with libertarian candidate gary johnson, in that poll president obama goes to 49% and mitt

romney goes to 44% and johnson goes to 4%. he has been stating the and on the war of drugs if his election campaign in the presidency this year, and we are pleased, of course to welcome gary johnson on the show. gary johnson former new mexico governor, welcome to the "the young turks"." >> michael, good to be with you. i just came from there i just came from colorado. it's going to be the tipping point to 50 states legalizing pot, and that would drastic drug policies all over the world. i'm imploring changing drug policies worldwide. >> you say you've been consistent on this message. what makes this a centerpiece. as soon as someone said gary johnson is in the race.

people are talking about marijuana. what drives you to make that as the centerpiece of your campaign. people do make this association governor. >> well, it is not a centerpiece. if it's a litmus test for having a brain i accept that. we can go on to other issues, let's not bomb iran, let's get out of afghanistan. i think should throw out the federal budget,--we should balance the budget and throw out other policies. as i say the litmus test for a brain. i'll go for that one. >> when you served as governor so many positions that you espoused are embraced a lot by the democratic side. why is it--why could you not have won as democrat for presidency at a different time when so many of those issues are issues in the democratic party

takes a real hold of? >> well, i think i'm stronger than obama when it comes to civil libertyies and i think i'm stronger than romney in dollars and cents. i think i crush him. when it comes to obama i crush him. i am under the bea leave that the libertarian party embraces both people. back to marijuana wow we're arresting 1.8 million people a year in this country. we've got--we now have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world 2.3 million people behind bars. look 90% of the drug problem is prohibition related not use related. not to discount use and abuse but that's the focus.

it's never going to become legal to smoke pot become impaired and get behind the wheel of a car. coloradoans get it. sucks years ago citizens in denver voted to decriminalize marijuana on a campaign that marijuana being safer than alcohol. having smoked and marijuana, and having drank alcohol neither of which do i do today can i tell you in no category is more dangerous than alcohol. if the 100 million americans have smoked pot and are watching this i think probably have 100 million heads nodding their heads, yes that's true. >> you make an impeccable argument. i want to ask you, are you surprised that you are taking more votes? are you surprised you're taking more votes from mitt romney than barack obama according to that poll? because i was. >> well, there are other polls. actually in new mexico, colorado

and nevada i take more votes from obama. and in michigan i take more votes from romney. it equals from both sides then i'm back to the fact look, there are liberals on social issues. >> how do you think it's going to go in colorado, and how would that manifest? >> i think it's going to pass. i say this tongue-in-cheek, but i think it passes in colorado, and then when the entire country gets on airplanes to go to denver for the weekend to chill out, i see the rest of the country falling in line with rational drug policy. i have to disagree with the sheriff that you played a teaser earlier. look, i would say in new mexico, if we legalized marijuana what about the millions of people who would want to move to your state state, entrepreneurs business people doctors lawyers that

would want to raise their kids in an environment where people aren't going to go to jail for making bad choices. >> and you know, i want to ask you one question before we let you go, governor. there is a chance that you could be the rafael nader, in quotes, the ralph nadar of 2012. how would you feel if you caused president obama the election--if you cost mitt romney the election. >> how would you feel if i cost barack obama the election. i get the sense that both of them want to pull the trigger when it comes to iran. i get the sense if either one of them are elected we'll find ourselves in a heightened police state, continued military intervention, wars we'll continue to borrow and spend money in a way that is unsustainable that is going to lead to a financial cliff.

that financial cliff is going to be a monetary collapse because we're borrowing and printing money to the tune of her $.93. >> thank you your voice helps the conversation. we're glad you stopped by. >> michael, i appreciate you having me on. thanks. >> coming up, we turn the tables just a little bit to paul ryan, and he got panned. we got the whole story hyped the pot washing incident. yourself. with governors (vo) during the debates, it's hard to know what candidates are thinking. unless, of course you've stood at the podium yourself. with governors granholm, spitzer, and vice president gore, watch the only truly experienced presidential debate coverage. [ male announcer ] red lobster's hitting the streets to tell real people about our new 15 under $15 menu. oh my goodness! oh my gosh this looks amazing!

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by the optima kia mid-sized sedan. >> welcome to the u-block. we have talk about the senate and congressional races that are going to be important no matter who wins the presidential election. right now the senate stands at 51-47 with two independents joe lieberman and joe sanders. so we went to you. the first is who wants to know about the casey/smith race in pennsylvania. that's robert casey running against tom smith there. it's a stingrays because casey has seemed really lazy in this race likes he never really cared. then he woke up and issued this ad. this is tom smith ad, his opponent and then he had an answer for him. >> in the senate i'll protect

social security and medicare. after all my own mother receives those benefits, and this son would never jeopardize that, right, mom. >> right. >> that's a creepy ad to me, but it's just a little weird having him look at his mother. of course his mother is going to want him to win. here is casey who is this is senator casey who is now trying to get his campaign going again. >> tom called the tea party budget quote, a good plan. it's the most radical in congress. a plan that would end medicare in two years even for current recipients and cut social security benefits by 40%. tea party tom smith extremely wrong for pennsylvania. >> yeah, it's really nice to see that they're playing the tea party there. obviously the issues for the elderly are important but it's one of those races that may lag behind the presidential race, a rare race if casey doesn't do as well as the president. the president is not going to

have coattails in a lot of these races, and a lot of senators are on their own. we go to pennsylvania because this is what we have for--in our live chat, connie pace said i would like to have coverage of sherrod brown. i live in cuyahoga county and he is my senator. large sums of money are being spent to defeat him. indeed, they are. the polling in that race has it a little tighter than it was for a while. a lot of polls have tightened. sherrod brown 47.8%. josh plan dell, mandel. watch this ad in ohio. >> named watchdog for strong fiscal performance. josh mandel, imagine these results in washington. sherrod brown, more debt, less jobs. time for a change. >> the guy looks older. i think i looked older at my bar

mitzvah than that guy looked. when you look at josh mandel you see a young up start republican. but sherrod brown, they had a big fight and they're making an issue of their age. they had a fight in their debate in ohio last night. >> falsely attacking me, and i won't stand for it. you might want to try to push people around in washington, but you're not going to push me around. >> being called a liar by the pants on crown fire is a pretty remarkable thing for a young man to say or a man of any age to say in a political debate. >> he called him a young man. i love it. thank you for writing in about these congressional races. we'll do a few more of them as we lead up to the election, but there was one thing that happened on the campaign trail that we all saw and that was paul ryan and his washing the pans. here he is stopped by this saint vincent depaul to do this, and

turns out he was washing pans that were not dirty. on the internet, tumblr decided they were going to pass along the links of people telling the story, and how to donate to the charity. conservatives are saying don't donate to the charity because they're saying the pans were not dirty. tumblr is saying, donate to the charity. people are going on the website and donating tons of money to charity, and it bit them--you know where it bit them. on "the young turks" we're going to stay within the congress with jesse jackson jr. and the problems he's having. >> federal investigators are looking into possible misuse of campaign funds to pay for a home remodeling job.

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>> it's go time. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> congressman jesse jackson sr. has been in the news lately. he has really been in the news since this summer. he has not been seen in congress since june. he has been suffering from bipolar disease and spent time at the mayo clinic. he had trouble at the ethics committee because it turns out he had given an associate--had said that he was going to give money to blagojevich so that jackson would be named to the president's former senate seat. there has been trouble following jesse jackson jr. he has not been seen, although he was

photographed smokeing a cigar on his stoop the other day. >> jackson has been on medical leave since june. he's been treated for bipolar disorder. federal investigators are looking into possible misuse of campaign funds to pay for a home remodeling job. my source told me that the money is somewhere around $20,000. the home in question is jackson's washington, d.c. home that went on the market last month for $2.5 million. because of security concerns public showings have since stopped. >> you know, that's not the only financial controversy that has plagued jackson. his deferment his wife, her firm has received $429,000 since july of 2003. they have received $429,000. that is from his campaign funds. he is still running for congress as we stand here speaking, and

of course the campaign funds have been used for redecorating his home, cigars, and his wife's consulting firm. with us is the author of that report from fox's newsroom in chicago, darlene hill. thanks for coming on "the young turks" today. >> hey michael how are you? >> i'm well. this guy is still running for congress and he's still going to win. >> he's still running for congress, and it does seem as if he's going to win. he has two opponents. a republican opponent as well as an independent. i talked to one of them every day who said to me, if he can't talk he should not be running. we have not heard from the man since june. his opponents there in the second congressional district, they're ready to hear from him and they're demanding a statement. >> they're ready to hear from him, they're demanding a statement, yet they're going to vote for him. >> like you said, he has been the congress in that district since 1995. a lot of constituents feel like

he has done a lot out there still has a lot to do. now they're getting to the point where they were trying to be there, trying to be supportive and understanding of his diagnosis, the bipolar disorder. now they're getting to the point where they're getting fed up. they want to hear from him and they don't want to be taken for granted. >> what are the things we've heard from jackson and his people and what his status is and whether or not he'll speak to his con sit went constituents as their congressman. >> he was spotted outside of his home. he had just picked up his children to school or was going to take them to school when a photographer and reporter saw him sitting outside of his steps smokeing a cigar. he told the reporter he's not doing well. my sources say he's not doing well. he is crying every few minutes. he's trying it figure out what is going on with the

investigation, what is going on politically, and he's at a point right now where he does not want to talk to anybody. apparently we're hearing also, that his father, the reverend jesse jackson stopped to see him, and he didn't even want to see him. the reporters outside of victoria in washington, d.c. that the family is giving serious thought to chick him back into the mayo clinic or another clinic so he can get some rest and go back to the prior congressman who is trying to get well. >> have the congressman or his family talked about resignation. >> they have not talked about that at all. as you said, everybody in every television station every newsroom newspaper they're all working their sources to try to figure out what is going to be his next step. a couple of stations in town today are reporting that he is, in fact, going to the mayo clinic. we have not been able to confirm that yet. that is something that the

family says they're considering they've talked about, but no decision has been made. >> darlene hill, fox 32 in chicago, thank you for coming in and tell us what is going on. >> thank you have a good weekend. >> thanks. with us is current contributor tricia rose fresh off the plane. jesse jackson this is an iconic political family at this point. and in chicago, they have an i amanincapacitated senator. as well. what will happen if he resigns because they would have elected him any way. >> i think it's important to keep in mind when you have serious mental health issues a lot of other things can spiral out of control. i think it's important to find a way for someone to speak to him and make it clear where we are because it is a legacy family. there is so much at stake.

if it's a matter of being unwell for six months and a year, then he can be back on track for the six months, that's terrific. then he can take his plala.. bu t bu you can imagine all the attacks, the right wing response. >> the people in that district would never respond to what the right wing is saying also elect jesse jackson jr. >> they're doing it on faith. the idea is, look, if you can give him a chance to get better, he has done so much. but it can't go on forever. there is a point where he has to answer to his constituency. that will happen one way or another. >> thank you for adding to our conversation here. when we come back it wouldn't be a day without an elbow of the day. we'll tell you what that is. (vo) the only network with real-time reactitititititititititititititititititititititititititititititi

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en >> former u.s. surgeon richard carmonas is a democrat even though he served under bush. he's running for the senate as a democrat. he has tightened that race and some polls have him ahead of his opponent jeff flake. one of the issues that he has had is women.

flake ran an ad critical of carmona telling about a woman who came pounding at his door because she was upset about it. then this debate. >> we'll leave it here gentleman, thank you. now i know how candy crowly felt too. >> yeah, that's right. richard carmona, u.s. surgeon general, a candidate with problems with women candidate surging in arizona said that he's prettier than candy crowley. it could have been re resurgence but it will be replayed, and people won't like that at all. who is stepping in the ring, it's richard carmona. the elbow falls on to richard carmona from richard carmona. that is interesting because that is a senate race that really

could have added another vote for the democrats in arizona and in the u.s. senate. they needed it badly. i don't think they're going to get it. i really don't. this will break carmona and unfortunately that's where they stand. so cheng uygur cenk uygur will be back on [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> gavin: hello, and thanks for watching the show. we start tonight with one of the most influential and thought thought-provoking journalists today, "the new york times" nicholas kristof. you'll find out why he's giving the president an "f" for communicating. and you'll find out his take on china, syria and the middle east. and why the new